Re: Weird problem creating IFS file

I agree with Lim. The spaces are AFTER your eof (which is really eol) which
makes them appear to be BEFORE the next line's data since it is a stream of
bytes. Do not attempt to write more data than you actually have in the
buffer!

Stu


On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 15:55, Lim Hock-Chai
<Lim.Hock-Chai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

That is probably because you are using %size(buffer), which will always
give you a value of 256, as the buffer size to write.

Try change buffer variable to be a varying length field and change write
statement to be like below:
write(fd:%addr(buffer)+2:%len(buffer)

"Mike Wills" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:<mailman.22509.1294436679.2702.rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>...

I am using Scott's documentation to create IFS files. I finally have
something working, however after the first row each line has over 150
characters of extra spaces before the data. What makes it stranger is

that

there isn't any consistency on how many spaces there are.

Here is a snipit of the file:
"Transaction Date","Account Desc.","Transaction
Desc","Account","Debit","Credit"


08/01/2010,"SERV CHG-SODA SALES","Ribfest-F&B Wk1

sales

J","622-49862-345130",.00,152.95


08/01/2010,"SERV CHG-CAN SODA SALES","Ribfest-F&B Wk1

sales

J","622-49862-345138",.00,9357.38

The code I use to create this is as follows:

D eof C const(x'0d25')

P WriteCsv B
D WriteCsv PI

D buffer S 256A

/free

buffer = %trim(%char(pTranDate:*usa)) + ',"' + %trim(pAcctDesc)

+

'","' + %trim(pTranDesc) + '","' + %trim(pAcct) + '",'

+

%trim(%editc(pDbAmt:'L')) + ',' +
%trim(%editc(pCrAmt:'L')) + eof;

if (write(fd:%addr(buffer):%size(buffer)) < %size(buffer));
abEnd = *on;
return;
endif;

return;

/end-free
P WriteCsv E

In debug, the spaces are not there. Any ideas?

--
Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me

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